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Aug. 31st, 2012
Democracy and Demographics
Aug. 31st, 2012 09:00 am"The demographics race we’re losing badly. We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."
-- Lindsey Graham
Well, I guess that's why Republicans have to play games with the vote, and why they have been getting more desperate about supressing the vote.
-- Lindsey Graham
Well, I guess that's why Republicans have to play games with the vote, and why they have been getting more desperate about supressing the vote.
Democracy and Demographics
Aug. 31st, 2012 09:00 am"The demographics race we’re losing badly. We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."
-- Lindsey Graham
Well, I guess that's why Republicans have to play games with the vote, and why they have been getting more desperate about supressing the vote.
-- Lindsey Graham
Well, I guess that's why Republicans have to play games with the vote, and why they have been getting more desperate about supressing the vote.
Republican World
Aug. 31st, 2012 11:38 amThe Repubicans have wrapped up their convention and Romney has given his big speech, but I'm going to let Paul Krugman take his swing at Paul Ryan and his speech.
We really are seeing an historic move: the Republicans have fully taken politics into the post-truth, post-modern realm - a real Alice in Wonderland, Newspeak kind of world. I kind of wish that I was in my seventies lying in my death bed, because I have this heavy feeling that life in this country is going to get really ugly in the years ahead.
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Paul Ryan’s speech Wednesday night may have accomplished one good thing: It finally may have dispelled the myth that he is a Serious, Honest Conservative. Indeed, Mr. Ryan’s brazen dishonesty left even his critics breathless.
Some of his fibs were trivial but telling, like his suggestion that President Obama is responsible for a closed auto plant in his hometown, even though the plant closed before Mr. Obama took office. Others were infuriating, like his sanctimonious declaration that “the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.” This from a man proposing savage cuts in Medicaid, which would cause tens of millions of vulnerable Americans to lose health coverage.
And Mr. Ryan — who has proposed $4.3 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade, versus only about $1.7 trillion in specific spending cuts — is still posing as a deficit hawk.
But Mr. Ryan’s big lie — and, yes, it deserves that designation — was his claim that “a Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare.” Actually, it would kill the program.
[...]
The question now is whether voters will understand what’s really going on (which depends to a large extent on whether the news media do their jobs). Mr. Ryan and his party are betting that they can bluster their way through this, pretending that they are the real defenders of Medicare even as they work to kill it. Will they get away with it?
-- Paul Krugman at The New York Times
We really are seeing an historic move: the Republicans have fully taken politics into the post-truth, post-modern realm - a real Alice in Wonderland, Newspeak kind of world. I kind of wish that I was in my seventies lying in my death bed, because I have this heavy feeling that life in this country is going to get really ugly in the years ahead.
_ _ _
Paul Ryan’s speech Wednesday night may have accomplished one good thing: It finally may have dispelled the myth that he is a Serious, Honest Conservative. Indeed, Mr. Ryan’s brazen dishonesty left even his critics breathless.
Some of his fibs were trivial but telling, like his suggestion that President Obama is responsible for a closed auto plant in his hometown, even though the plant closed before Mr. Obama took office. Others were infuriating, like his sanctimonious declaration that “the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.” This from a man proposing savage cuts in Medicaid, which would cause tens of millions of vulnerable Americans to lose health coverage.
And Mr. Ryan — who has proposed $4.3 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade, versus only about $1.7 trillion in specific spending cuts — is still posing as a deficit hawk.
But Mr. Ryan’s big lie — and, yes, it deserves that designation — was his claim that “a Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare.” Actually, it would kill the program.
[...]
The question now is whether voters will understand what’s really going on (which depends to a large extent on whether the news media do their jobs). Mr. Ryan and his party are betting that they can bluster their way through this, pretending that they are the real defenders of Medicare even as they work to kill it. Will they get away with it?
-- Paul Krugman at The New York Times
Republican World
Aug. 31st, 2012 11:38 amThe Repubicans have wrapped up their convention and Romney has given his big speech, but I'm going to let Paul Krugman take his swing at Paul Ryan and his speech.
We really are seeing an historic move: the Republicans have fully taken politics into the post-truth, post-modern realm - a real Alice in Wonderland, Newspeak kind of world. I kind of wish that I was in my seventies lying in my death bed, because I have this heavy feeling that life in this country is going to get really ugly in the years ahead.
_ _ _
Paul Ryan’s speech Wednesday night may have accomplished one good thing: It finally may have dispelled the myth that he is a Serious, Honest Conservative. Indeed, Mr. Ryan’s brazen dishonesty left even his critics breathless.
Some of his fibs were trivial but telling, like his suggestion that President Obama is responsible for a closed auto plant in his hometown, even though the plant closed before Mr. Obama took office. Others were infuriating, like his sanctimonious declaration that “the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.” This from a man proposing savage cuts in Medicaid, which would cause tens of millions of vulnerable Americans to lose health coverage.
And Mr. Ryan — who has proposed $4.3 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade, versus only about $1.7 trillion in specific spending cuts — is still posing as a deficit hawk.
But Mr. Ryan’s big lie — and, yes, it deserves that designation — was his claim that “a Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare.” Actually, it would kill the program.
[...]
The question now is whether voters will understand what’s really going on (which depends to a large extent on whether the news media do their jobs). Mr. Ryan and his party are betting that they can bluster their way through this, pretending that they are the real defenders of Medicare even as they work to kill it. Will they get away with it?
-- Paul Krugman at The New York Times
We really are seeing an historic move: the Republicans have fully taken politics into the post-truth, post-modern realm - a real Alice in Wonderland, Newspeak kind of world. I kind of wish that I was in my seventies lying in my death bed, because I have this heavy feeling that life in this country is going to get really ugly in the years ahead.
_ _ _
Paul Ryan’s speech Wednesday night may have accomplished one good thing: It finally may have dispelled the myth that he is a Serious, Honest Conservative. Indeed, Mr. Ryan’s brazen dishonesty left even his critics breathless.
Some of his fibs were trivial but telling, like his suggestion that President Obama is responsible for a closed auto plant in his hometown, even though the plant closed before Mr. Obama took office. Others were infuriating, like his sanctimonious declaration that “the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.” This from a man proposing savage cuts in Medicaid, which would cause tens of millions of vulnerable Americans to lose health coverage.
And Mr. Ryan — who has proposed $4.3 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade, versus only about $1.7 trillion in specific spending cuts — is still posing as a deficit hawk.
But Mr. Ryan’s big lie — and, yes, it deserves that designation — was his claim that “a Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare.” Actually, it would kill the program.
[...]
The question now is whether voters will understand what’s really going on (which depends to a large extent on whether the news media do their jobs). Mr. Ryan and his party are betting that they can bluster their way through this, pretending that they are the real defenders of Medicare even as they work to kill it. Will they get away with it?
-- Paul Krugman at The New York Times
Romney's Acceptance Speech
Aug. 31st, 2012 04:09 pmSkimming Romney's big acceptance speech, at least he does not seem to be subject to a lot of fact-checking, as he contented himself with spewing general homilies of homespun virtues laced with broadside attacks against Obama, which is par for the course when it comes to these speeches, as they are more about conveying a mood than an argument.
The bet, of course, is that Americans are feeling the sting of a faltering economy and will vote for change, and fortunately for Mitt, he is the only change on the ballot. This is the strategy that the Republicans in Congress have been playing for the past two years, playing the delay and obstruction game for all it's worth, doing what they can to sabotage any effort to boost the economy, and we will have to see how this all plays out over the next two months until election day.
But who did his make-up? He looked like a ghost, or like he was audtioning for the Joker role in Hollywood's next Batman reboot.
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But for too many Americans, these good days are harder to come by. How many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in America?
Many of you felt that way on Election Day four years ago. Hope and Change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I'd ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.
The President hasn’t disappointed you because he wanted to. The President has disappointed America because he hasn’t led America in the right direction. He took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task. He had almost no experience working in a business. Jobs to him are about government.
I learned the real lessons about how America works from experience.
-- Mitt Romney, accepting the Republican nomination
The bet, of course, is that Americans are feeling the sting of a faltering economy and will vote for change, and fortunately for Mitt, he is the only change on the ballot. This is the strategy that the Republicans in Congress have been playing for the past two years, playing the delay and obstruction game for all it's worth, doing what they can to sabotage any effort to boost the economy, and we will have to see how this all plays out over the next two months until election day.
But who did his make-up? He looked like a ghost, or like he was audtioning for the Joker role in Hollywood's next Batman reboot.
_ _ _
But for too many Americans, these good days are harder to come by. How many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in America?
Many of you felt that way on Election Day four years ago. Hope and Change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I'd ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.
The President hasn’t disappointed you because he wanted to. The President has disappointed America because he hasn’t led America in the right direction. He took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task. He had almost no experience working in a business. Jobs to him are about government.
I learned the real lessons about how America works from experience.
-- Mitt Romney, accepting the Republican nomination
Romney's Acceptance Speech
Aug. 31st, 2012 04:09 pmSkimming Romney's big acceptance speech, at least he does not seem to be subject to a lot of fact-checking, as he contented himself with spewing general homilies of homespun virtues laced with broadside attacks against Obama, which is par for the course when it comes to these speeches, as they are more about conveying a mood than an argument.
The bet, of course, is that Americans are feeling the sting of a faltering economy and will vote for change, and fortunately for Mitt, he is the only change on the ballot. This is the strategy that the Republicans in Congress have been playing for the past two years, playing the delay and obstruction game for all it's worth, doing what they can to sabotage any effort to boost the economy, and we will have to see how this all plays out over the next two months until election day.
But who did his make-up? He looked like a ghost, or like he was audtioning for the Joker role in Hollywood's next Batman reboot.
_ _ _
But for too many Americans, these good days are harder to come by. How many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in America?
Many of you felt that way on Election Day four years ago. Hope and Change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I'd ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.
The President hasn’t disappointed you because he wanted to. The President has disappointed America because he hasn’t led America in the right direction. He took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task. He had almost no experience working in a business. Jobs to him are about government.
I learned the real lessons about how America works from experience.
-- Mitt Romney, accepting the Republican nomination
The bet, of course, is that Americans are feeling the sting of a faltering economy and will vote for change, and fortunately for Mitt, he is the only change on the ballot. This is the strategy that the Republicans in Congress have been playing for the past two years, playing the delay and obstruction game for all it's worth, doing what they can to sabotage any effort to boost the economy, and we will have to see how this all plays out over the next two months until election day.
But who did his make-up? He looked like a ghost, or like he was audtioning for the Joker role in Hollywood's next Batman reboot.
_ _ _
But for too many Americans, these good days are harder to come by. How many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in America?
Many of you felt that way on Election Day four years ago. Hope and Change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I'd ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.
The President hasn’t disappointed you because he wanted to. The President has disappointed America because he hasn’t led America in the right direction. He took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task. He had almost no experience working in a business. Jobs to him are about government.
I learned the real lessons about how America works from experience.
-- Mitt Romney, accepting the Republican nomination
